Tarot Advice For 5 Zodiacs Who Should Cultivate Their Diplomatic Side

Being able to diplomatically state difficult truths is an important skill that leverages emotional intelligence and relationship-building.

There are five zodiac signs who should cultivate their diplomatic side over the coming weeks, and our tarot reader has done readings for each of them.

The cards drawn represent the following:

• Working For You: What’s working for you in the present.
• Working Against You: What’s working against you in the present.
• Your Hopes: What you’re hoping for.
• Your Fears: What you’re afraid of happening. 
• Advice: A Piece of advice on where you might look to go next or how to handle the personal part of the experience.

Aries

Working For You: Queen of Cups. You are filled with compassion, and are easily able to see the viewpoint that others are bringing to the table. Compassion and empathy are great cultivators of diplomacy. 

Working Against You: Five of Cups. There are some hard feelings that everyone is going to have to work through, Aries, including abandonment and insecurity. It’s hard to be vulnerable and compassionate when dealing with these emotions, as the initial reaction is to be protective of those wounds. 

Your Hopes: Two of Pentacles. You’re hopeful that you’re skilled at balancing the need to reach a general accord and get things moving forward again with the healing that needs to be done. 

Your Fears: King of Cups. You’re afraid that this may all fall apart if everyone falls into their emotions too much, making them ego-centric and short-sighted.

Advice: Nine of Swords. Don’t let your fears guide the conversation, remember that they are thoughts that you can dismiss. 

Capricorn

Working For You: King of Pentacles. You have a great command of things right now, almost like a golden touch. Your work ethic and willingness to invest time to create something long-lasting and meaningful is a great way to cultivate your inner sense of diplomacy. 

Working Against You: Seven of Pentacles. You’re challenged by your patience, or perhaps your lack of. It can take a long time to forge bonds with others, and becoming more diplomatic will require you to test your patience.

Your Hopes: Queen of Wands. You’re engaged in this work because you’re hoping that building consensus will also build your independence and confidence, Capricorn. You’ve invested a lot of your time in creating something unique, and knowing how to diplomatically advocate for yourself would be another step towards success.

Your Fears: Nine of Wands. You’re tired of creating in a vacuum, and feeling like you’re alone in defending what you believe in. What’s more – you’re afraid that maybe the cause isn’t as great as you think it is. While you may have started this journey alone, you’re realizing you need the input – and help – of others.

Advice: Knight of Wands. Be bold.

Cancer

Working For You: Six of Cups. Your positive memories are a huge advantage as you seek to cultivate your diplomatic side. Remembering people at their best can help you to encourage them to those heights, and inspire both camaraderie and compassion.

Working Against You: Queen of Cups. Be careful that you don’t allow your emotions to completely take over, Cancer, there’s a line between being compassionate and becoming wishy-washy and fickle. 

Your Hopes: Ten of Wands. You’re willing to take responsibility for this whole enterprise, and you’re hopeful that through hard work, dedication, and smart leadership you’ll be able to steer towards success. 

Your Fears: The Star. What you’re truly afraid of is that everyone will act like things are going well, and tell you that they are hoping for the same things that you are – for all of it to fall apart just meters from the finish line. You don’t want to pin your hopes on intention when it’s action you seek.

Advice: Nine of Swords. Face and address your fears before they get the better of you.

Leo

Working For You: Ace of Wands. There’s a lot of potential in your situation, if you’re able to communicate both truthfully and diplomatically. 

Working Against You: Nine of Wands, Reversed. You’ve been on your own too long, Leo. You’ve spent your time fighting this battle and focused on little else. While you still believe in the cause passionately, you’re also keeping possible allies out. Seek allies.

Your Hopes: Justice. There are few causes that can make us feel empowered and inspired quite like justice served. 

Your Fears: Nine of Pentacles. Right now, your biggest fear is in getting too comfortable. If you get everything you want, you’re afraid that the fight in you will leave shortly after. Instead of seeing all that you’ve been struggling for as an advantage, you’re starting to see the responsibilities that come with those gains as a gilded cage. When your fear is success, be wary of self-sabotage and be diligent in self-care. 

Advice: Knight of Cups. Love yourself, and be as gentle and compassionate with yourself as you would be with others. 

Sagittarius

Working For You: Five of Wands. You’re the sort of person who likes to learn on the job, Sagittarius. Given the conflict and strife that’s around you on a daily basis, you’re being served a lot of opportunities to hone your diplomatic skills. 

Working Against You: The Hanged Man. Perspective can be important, but allowing yourself to defer to everyone else isn’t shifting perspective, nor is it truly diplomatic, as much as it is giving ground. Don’t let your viewpoint get lost just for the sake of an agreement or end to the conflict.

Your Hopes: Two of Cups. You’re hopeful that after an investment into diplomacy not only will the situation improve, but the bonds between all of you will be stronger than ever. There’s a lot to be gained here, once emotions can settle and people can come to an understanding.

Your Fears: Four of Pentacles. You’re afraid of things being held back, and people not being as honest or open with their feelings and intentions. You feel that everything needs to be out on the table for progress to be made.

Advice: Ten of Wands. You’re so close, but you can’t do this all by yourself. Delegate, especially if the task is better suited to someone else’s skill set. This demonstration of trust may go farther than you thought.